Triggering genuine interaction and critical thinking in ESL classes through challenging questions to optimize classroom interaction and social presence among L2 learners Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Video of genuine interaction in ESL classes Watch this video on YouTube Abstract These days, insufficient attention is being paid to the significance of proper questions, the…
Interactive negotiation of meaning and form in ESL classes written by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Video of interactive negotiation of meaning Watch this video on YouTube Abstract Second language learning and teaching cannot be taken for granted, and it cannot take place in a vacuum. From the advent…
Explicit corrective feedback in writing for ESL students written and narrated by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Video of explicit corrective feedback Watch this video on YouTube Abstract Writing academically is one of the most demanding and time-consuming activities in the face of ESL learners. That’s why language learners…
Learner-centered curriculum: a recipe for humanizing language teaching and learning on how to practice humanistic education in the domain of second language acquisition Author: Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl Video of learner-centered curriculum Watch this video on YouTube Abstract A language curriculum needs to consider the learners’ needs and interests. This is only in this…
Haggle definition in context with images and synonyms as a business term in English from Vocabulary for the College-bound Student. Learn the word, haggle, in authentic examples and with illustrations. /ˈhæg.ļ/ (noun & verb) Haggle definition Verb: to argue over the price or cost of something or a service between the salesman and the customer…
Writing Practice on Holding Negotiations Writing Practice on Holding Negotiations Morteza Feizbakhsh This video talks about useful techniques of negotiation which help negotiators to succeed and achieve gains out of controversial negotiation. The main purpose of these techniques is to utilize voice and sentences in order to increase collaborative and understandable atmosphere. The first technique…
Foreigner Talk Foreigner Talk The three functions of foreigner talk can be identified: It promotes communication through simplifying utterances and making them easier to process or clarifying what has been said. It signals, implicitly or explicitly, speakers’ attitudes towards their interlocutors. It can create an affective bond between the native speaker and non-native speaker. It…
Recast Recast is another form of feedback, though they are less direct and more subtle than other forms of feedback. A recast is a reformulation of an incorrect utterance that maintains the original meaning of the utterance where the NS reformulates the NNS’s incorrect utterances. Recasts are complex, for instance, is it a partial recast?…
Interaction Hypothesis Interaction Hypothesis Long’s Interaction Hypothesis, especially the updated version, claims that learners do need to pay conscious attention to form in order to benefit from negotiated interaction. The origins of Long’s Interaction Hypothesis lies partly in Hatch’s work on discourse analysis and L2 acquisition and partly in Krashen’s Input Hypothesis. Hatch claims that…
Speech Acts Speech acts are carried out over various turns and their exact shape takes into account interlocutor reactions. In other words, conversation is co-constructed by both interlocutors, which is something that can never be simulated with DCTs. Speech acts are certainly the most researched area of pragmatics, and they are arguably the most social,…